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After reaching an all-time peak in 1990, crime in New York City dropped dramatically through the rest of the 1990s. [118] New York City crime rates by 2014 were comparable to those of the early 1960s. [119] [120] Darrell Cabey fell into a coma after the shooting; he suffered irreversible brain damage and was paralyzed from the waist down. [121]
On the morning of December 22, 2024, a woman, later identified as Debrina Kawam (born Debbie Kawam [2]), was immolated by a man while she was sleeping [3] on the New York City Subway while an F train was stopped at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn.
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. Its predecessors—the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), and the Independent Subway System (IND)—were ...
LONDON (Reuters) -A cargo ship abandoned four days ago in the Gulf of Aden after it was hit by missiles fired by Yemen's Houthis is still floating despite taking in water, and could be towed to ...
Vessels of historic interest include the submarine chaser USS PC-1264, the first World War II US Navy ship to have a predominantly African-American crew; and the New York City Fire Department fireboat Abram S. Hewitt, which served as the floating command post at the 1904 sinking of the passenger ferry PS General Slocum, a disaster that killed ...
Then there was Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, the animal charged with lighting the match that set the innocent subway rider on fire — thus igniting a hellscape that feels like a metaphor for New York ...
The 277-foot-long (84 m) ship, part of the Miss New York ferryboat class, cost $912,000 to build. [1] The Mary Murray was retired in 1974 and sold at auction. [2] From 1982 through the mid-2000s, [3] she sat as a floating wreck on the Raritan River within view of the New Jersey Turnpike. [4]
New subway cars were also purchased: the R62 and R62A fleets for the A Division and the R68 and R68A fleets for the B Division. The R62 in particular was the first New York City Subway car class built by a foreign manufacturer. [240] These were all delivered between 1983 and 1989.